Back from Serbia, safe and sound

I’ve arrived back in Copenhagen tonight, safe and sound - albeit without my luggage which decided to stay in Switzerland an extra day. My first trip to Serbia was a quite scary but also interesting experience. I even took part in a street action on November 9th (the Night of Broken Glass), in the middle [...]


Amila Jašarević   |  balkans, english   |  11 12th, 2008    |  2 Comments »

RESF: Activism at its finest

Yesterday we met with several local activists that were able to give us an idea of their work here. One of them was a lady from Réseau Education Sans Frontières (French), or RESF, as everything in France has an abbreviation. The network consists of ordinary citizens whose aim it is to stop deportations of families [...]


Amila Jašarević   |  activism, english   |  10 30th, 2008    |  1 Comment »

Migrant issues of the past and asylum policies of today

A couple of my colleagues here at the seminar “Raising Young Refugees’ Voices in Europe Today” have shown an interest in my blog, so I’ve decided to write a few posts in English to have something to show to them, and who knows - maybe I’ll keep it up in the time to come. It [...]


Amila Jašarević   |  english, politics   |  10 29th, 2008    |  8 Comments »

On The Spot: UNITED Conference - An Eye Opener

Last week’s UNITED conference in Stockholm was a great success. Together with 67 other participants from 34 countries I spent four days working with anti-racism issues, asylum policies and the situation for minorities in different countries. The UNITED network was started in 1992 and consists of more than 560 organisations in 46 European countries. Among [...]


Amila Jašarević   |  english, on the spot   |  06 4th, 2008    |  No Comments »